Pompous is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for POMPOUS in dictionary:

ADJECTIVE:
• infused with exaggerated self-importance
• affectedly grand, solemn, or self-important
• characterized by pomp or splendour
• foolishly serious and grand, self-important
• Displaying pomp; stately; showy with grandeur; magnificent; as, a pompous procession.
• Ostentatious; pretentious; boastful; vainlorious; as, pompous manners; a pompous style.
• puffed up with vanity
• characterized by pomp and ceremony and stately display
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• marked by exaggerated self-importance

Words related to POMPOUS

aldermanly16 pompously18 pompousness17

Words that contain POMPOUS

pompously18 pompousness17 pompousnesses19

How to use POMPOUS in a sentence

• He refused the pompous blasphemy of temples and altars, saying that for every true ruler the world was a temple, and all good men were priests.
• Two or three pompous individuals then seated themselves facing the others, and the proceedings began.
• He, in turn, had been swept from his office and replaced by the pompous and incompetent Necker.
• I never felt less hungry, nor had the servants ever appeared so pompous and slow.
• Lord Holmhurst was a stout, short, dark little man, with a somewhat pompous manner, and a kindly face.
• It ought not to be funny to see a man, especially a fat and pompous man, slip suddenly on a banana skin.
• Ernest dwelt on his discoveries, and was very pompous in his descriptions, and I was obliged to promise to take Fritz another time.
• We learn from other writers, two of them contemporary with the events, that the pompous dismissal of Parthamasiris, with leave to go wherever he chose, was a mere pretence.
• The policeman left in the room was a big, thick-voiced, pompous man, with a horrible unfeeling pleasure in hearing himself talk before an assembly of frightened, silent people.
• Scully, and with hearty good will too, for he adored the great William Pitt, and believed every word that dropped from the pompous lips of that gentleman.
• It is amusing to observe the pompous and even royal style assumed by this Tartar chief.
• Gladstone was great with indignant and pompous eloquence upon the glory of this achievement.
• Sometimes, no doubt, it followed in the train of the pompous governors when they came over from England.
• Charles most certainly would receive a pompous and affirmative answer.
• At Mourzouk, the modern capital, the reception was more solemn and pompous.
• Lastly, in the same familiar strain, but with all the pompous weight of undisputed dictatorship, we find Dr.
• Of no pompous or abstract ritual administration did the Son of God set an example.
• Here was performed, in presence of Ferdinand and Isabella and their triumphant court, the pompous ceremonial of high mass, on taking possession of the Alhambra.
• Lippett, behind the scenes, did not always maintain that calm and pompous dignity with which she faced an audience of Trustees and lady visitors.
• And on the third night near the dawn of day, In rubber cloak stole in upon the post A pompous major, on the nightly round, Unchallenged.
• He accordingly invited Gustavus to Moscow, making him pompous promises.
• The city gave him a splendid reception, and he was welcomed by the Earl of Albemarle in a very complimentary speech, pompous and flowery.
• A pompous governor of Galicia hastened to Vigo, and on his arrival there he took fright at the number of ships and the dreaded name of the pirate chief who was in command.

Similar words containing POMPOU without suffix s

pompously18 pompousness17 pompousnesses19

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